Thinner Page #5

Synopsis: A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): Tom Holland
Production: Republic Pictures Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
15%
R
Year:
1996
93 min
284 Views


Have a nice stay

at the Glassman, Billy.

[Laughing]

I hear the food's good.

There's no such thing

as a Gypsy curse.

You come back in another

couple of weeks...

after you've lost

another 40 or 50 pounds!

Tell me what you believe then!

Yes, you tell me

what you believe then!

You hear me?

You tell me what you believe then!

You tell me!

- You gave me that.

- I did?

Mr. Ginelli,

it's Billy Halleck for you.

- What can I do for you?

- I got a crazy question for you.

Go ahead, Counselor.

Do you believe Gypsies

can curse people?

I tend to believe what my friends

tell me and what I can see.

My mother is a different story.

Hold on.

[Speaking Italian]

[Speaking Italian]

Si.

[Thunderclap]

[Speaking Italian,

Pretends To Spit]

She says she believes.

She knew Gypsies in the old country.

She says whoever puts it on

has to take it off. No one else can.

No one else.

What's this all about?

I'll get back to you. Thank you.

What happened

at the Rossington's last night?

Leda Rossington thinks that old Gypsy,

Tadzu Lempke, put a curse on Cary and I.

What?

I know how it sounds,

but that's what she thinks.

You see...

Cary has this skin cancer...

Billy, there is no such thing

as a Gypsy curse.

Even if there were, it wouldn't just

be you and Cary that Lempke would curse.

It would be the entire town.

Yeah?

The whole town didn't kill his wife

and then try and cover it up.

It was me and Cary and...

What?

It would be Hopley too.

He was in on the cover-up.

Billy...

all you have to do right now...

is to think about checking yourself

into the clinic and getting better.

That's all.

Look out!

We're here.

Hopley, answer, damn it.

- Good morning, Mr. Halleck.

- Morning.

We've used the computer

to synthesize your test results.

Amazing.

Over 12,000 calories a day,

and you continue to lose weight.

Here you are.

Extra whipped cream,

just as you specified.

We have some good protocols.

They'll take a week or two to work out.

What if that

doesn't tell you anything?

We'll keep running tests.

We won't give up.

Rest assured of that.

- Where are you going?

- To get some takeout.

Duncan, it's Billy Halleck.

The guy at the station house

said you were home sick.

You okay?

Come on, Duncan.

I know about the judge.

What's happened to you?

I don't really think

you want to know...

but come on in.

[Lock Clicking]

So...

now Rossington looks like

what he was all along.

That's funny.

And look at you.

You finally found a diet that works.

Whatever we did,

we don't deserve this.

No? You ran the old lady down.

Rossington fixed it so points weren't

even taken off your driving record.

And I just ran the whole pack

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Michael McDowell

Michael McEachern McDowell (June 1, 1950 – December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". His most well-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. more…

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